Deck 12: Feminisms: Theories and Practices

Question 1

Why is the issue of theorizing identity and oppression central to understanding multicultural/intersectional feminism?

Answer 1

(on pp. 386-387)

Question 2

Who were the important theorists that influenced the history of radical feminism?

Answer 2

(on pp. 376-380)

Question 3

Why did Shulamith Firestone argue that the root of women's oppression resides in the biological separation of the sexes?

Answer 3

(on pp. 377-378)

Question 4

What are the clear advantages of a feminist theoretical analysis for comprehending different kinds of feminism?

Question 5

Define the term liberal feminist theory. Explain why liberal feminism often is referred to as equality feminism.

Question 6

Why did many feminists of color disapprove of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique?

Question 7

Why did many American feminists after 1980 publish works that criticized the exploitation of women in global factory labor?

Question 8

Explain why philosophic postmodern scholars reject the main viewpoints of modernism?

Question 9

How does postmodern feminism repudiate the belief that there exist universal truths regarding all human beings?

Question 10

Why is Marx's analysis of modes of production and capitalist exploitation of workers still relevant today, particularly in relation to the evolution of socialist feminism?

Question 11

Explain how radical feminism activism generated the public discourse and grassroots movements regarding sexual assault and pornography.

Question 12

Define the term antifeminism? Who is the most recognizable leader of antifeminism in the United States and why?

Question 13

How have the psychoanalytical viewpoints of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan influenced liberal and radical feminism?

Question 14

Why did radical feminist Mary Daly reclaim words used to stigmatize women in her feminist analysis?

Question 15

Explain why some Marxist feminists examine multiple forms of oppression, rather than solely focusing on capitalism as the only origin of women's subjugation.

Question 16

Describe Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa's contributions to queer theory?

Question 17

How did the queer activism of the 1990s and 2000s expand queer theory beyond the category of homosexuality?

Question 18

Explain how nineteenth century Black women writers and activists provided the historical foundation for an intersectional analysis of feminism.

Question 19

Define the term ecofeminism.

Question 20

Explain how Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and Eve Kosofsky Sedqick's Epistemology of the Closet represent the key foundational texts of queer theory.

Question 21

Why do multicultural scholars and grassroots advocates insist that all forms of communication must be open and accessible, not embedded in arcane academic language.

Question 22

How did the temperance movement in the United States attract liberal feminists?

Question 23

Define the term postcolonial feminism. Why do postcolonial feminists argue that neoliberalism perpetuates inequality and unsafe conditions for workers in the Global South?

Question 24

What year did Victoria Woodhull run for the U.S. Presidency?

A) 1868
B) 1875
C) 1880
D) 1872
E) 1876

Question 25

Which one of the following radical feminists wrote The Dialectic of Sex?

A) Shulamith Firestone
B) Robin Morgan
C) Rita Mae Brown
D) Kathie Sarachild
E) Judith Brown

Question 26

Which one of the following prominent social reformers established Hull House settlement?

A) Nellie Bly
B) Katharine Ellis Coman
C) Jane Addams
D) Charlotte Hawkins Brown
E) Lillian Wald

Question 27

In what year did Gayle Rubin write her famous essay "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex"?

A) 1969
B) 1972
C) 1977
D) 1974
E) 1975

Question 28

Who made this comment that multicultural feminism "does not offer a singular or unified feminism so much as a method of analysis that take into account multiple systems of domination"?

A) Audre Lorde
B) Maxine Baca Zinn
C) Vicki Ruiz
D) Angela Davis
E) Patricia Hill Collins

Question 29

In what year did Sojourner Truth escape enslavement?

A) 1826
B) 1833
C) 1815
D) 1838
E) 1828

Question 30

Who commented that U.S. Third World feminism must overcome hegemonic feminism?

A) Cherrie Moraga
B) Ana Castillo
C) Norma Alarcón
D) Chela Sandoval
E) Carla Trujillo

Question 31

What year did Luce Irigaray write her influential essay "This Sex Which is Not One"?

A) 1979
B) 1977
C) 1975
D) 1980
E) 1971

Question 32

Which one of the following feminist scholars created the term "feminist standpoint"?

A) Zillah Eisenstein
B) Donna Haraway
C) Christine Delphy
D) Margaret Coulson
E) Nancy C. M. Hartsock

Question 33

Which one of the following radical feminist groups was founded in 1967?

A) New York Radical Women
B) Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell
C) Lavender Menace
D) The Furies Collective
E) Women Against Pornography

Question 34

Which one of the following feminist activists stated that intersectionality compels a person to "be dealing with race and sex and class and sexual identity all at one time?"

A) Pat Parker
B) Cheryl Clarke
C) Barbara Smith
D) Sonia Sanchez
E) Beverly Smith

Question 35

In what city was Chandra Talpade Mohanty born in?

A) Jaipur
B) Hyderabad
C) Kolkata
D) New Delhi
E) Mumbai

Question 36

Which one of the following feminists argued that "there is no definable category of 'woman'?"

A) Dionne Brand
B) Julia Kristeva
C) Jeanne Bouvier
D) Françoise Giroud
E) Vivian Gornick

Question 37

Which one of the following authors wrote the book The Wretched of the Earth?

A) Jamaica Kincaid
B) Edouard Glissant
C) Aimé Césaire
D) Frantz Fanon
E) Maryse Condé

Question 38

In what year was the National Black Feminist Organization founded?

A) 1975
B) 1981
C) 1973
D) 1970
E) 1974

Question 39

Which of the following nineteenth century Black female activists is known as the first African American female journalist?

A) Eliza Ann Gardner
B) Frances Watkins Harper
C) Maria Stewart
D) Lucy Stanton
E) Harriet Tubman

Question 40

Which one of the following nineteenth century women activists called herself a "hell-raiser"?

A) Abby Kelley
B) Carrie Nation
C) Emma Goldman
D) Helen Gougar
E) Mother Jones

Question 41

Who was a coauthor of the Equal Rights Amendment of 1923?

A) Dora Lewis
B) Crystal Eastman
C) Alva Belmont
D) Mabel Vernon
E) Annie Arniel

Question 42

Which one of the following radical feminists contended that patriarchy colonized women's mind and emptied them of their "biophilic" female energy?

A) Chude Pam Allen
B) Ti-Grace Atkinson
C) Germaine Greer
D) Mary Daly
E) Lydia Sargent

Question 43

Who was the founder of the National Council of Negro Women?

A) Mary McLeod Bethune
B) Nannie Helen Borroughs
C) Ida B. Wells-Barnett
D) Bettiola Heloise Fortson
E) Mary B. Talbert

Question 44

In what year did the Native American occupation of Wounded Knee occur?

A) 1978
B) 1971
C) 1973
D) 1976
E) 1974

Question 45

Who wrote the book A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South?

A) Elizabeth Keckley
B) Susie King Taylor
C) Annie L. Burton
D) Pauline Hopkins
E) Anna Julia Cooper

Question 46

What year was the Vancouver Indochinese Women's conference held?

A) 1977
B) 1971
C) 1973
D) 1970
E) 1975

Question 47

Which one of the following feminists defined the term "Mestiza consciousness"?

A) Anna Nieto-Gómez
B) Lorna Dee Cervantes
C) Dolores Huerta
D) Gloria Anzaldúa
E) Ada María Isasi-Díaz

Question 48

Which one of the following feminist theorists used the term transnational feminism rather than global feminism by 1997?

A) Inderpal Grewal
B) Andrea Dworkin
C) Naomi Schor
D) Nancy K. Miller
E) Chantal Chawaf

Question 49

Hijas de Cuauhtémoc was named after a feminist underground newspaper that supported the October 1968 Mexican student protests in Tlatelolco Plaza in Mexico City.

Question 50

Carrie Chapman Catt, the president of NAWSA (National American Woman's Suffrage Association), publicly supported U.S. imperialism in the Philippines.

Question 51

In Gyn/Ecology, Mary Daly stated she didn't promote women's physical separation from men.

Question 52

Shulamith Firestone believed that technology would finally free women from the limitations of female biology.

Question 53

Lugenia Burns Hope created the Atlanta Neighborhood Union, a club that functioned as a public school for African American children.